Blues Harp (film)

Blues Harp is a 1998 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Miike.

Kenji is sleeping with Reiko, the wife of the boss Yukichi Hanamura, and pays a man to forge a will naming Kenji as Yukichi's sole heir.

Kenji's bodyguard Kaneko, jealous of Kenji's friendship with Chuji, suggests to the Okadas that they should send the expendable Chuji to kill Yukichi Hanamura and ultimately be shot by a waiting sniper.

Hanamura's men arrive and kill Kenji, then enter the club to get Chuji.

In his 2005 book Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, author Chris Desjardins writes, "A truly great picture, Blues Harp remains one of Miike's finest, a perfectly realized and emotionally affecting movie.